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Self-Shilling:
- The latest Wrestling Podcast has me talking to my old friend and wrestling culturist Dylan Hales about the prospect of two awesome matches at Over the Limit among other things. [Episode 51: The Surrealistic Pillman]
- In case you missed it last night, I talked to Matt Ufford of SB Nation and KSK about television, dogs, sex and Kate Upton on the latest Outside the Squared Circle. It's a must listen! [Episode 7: TV Party!]
Wrestling Links:
- Jason Mann argues that WWE should just kill kayfabe outright [Cageside Seats]
- Veda Scott is interviewed and dishes about her experience as a wrestler as well as why wrestling is art [Dirty Dirty Sheets]
- David Shoemaker on why winning in WWE isn't as important as one might think. [Grantland]
- Old, schmold. Matt Saye looks at guys over 40 who can still go. [The Wrestling Journal]
- Justin Henry looks at what the WWF might have done in a B.A. Star campaign in 1989 [Blue Bar Cage]
- The Best and Worst of RAW, where Brandon Stroud introduces us to Lenscrafters Presents Eve Torres [With Leather]
Non-Wrestling Links:
- Spencer Hall calls Vince Mancini the "only film critic". This Avengers review is a big reason why I tend to agree with him. [Film Drunk]
- 19 superheroes with WTF superpowers [Huffington Post]
- A pretty neat interactive map showing all the major sports Championships ever [Slate]
- Josh Zerkle builds a NFL team consisting solely of players making less than $1M a year. [The Go Route]
- Your feelgood story of the week, the Bucs sign paralyzed defensive lineman Eric LeGrand to a rookie contract. [Shutdown Corner]
- Things you'll only see in China. This is must-see. [Buzz Feed]
- Will Sarah Phillips' story make larger companies change the way they hire people? Better question, should it? [Awful Announcing]
- Here's one of those videos Ufford makes with Dan Rubenstein, this debating on whether Cole Hamels and Bryce Harper are bros or douchebags. [SB Nation]
- A PSA to Phillies fans pitching a bitch fit over the Nationals actually wanting their own fans in their home stadium - stop it. [Crashburn Alley]
- Six reasons Iron Man > Batman [Cracked]
- Bethlehem Shoals looks at the consequences when an in-shape athlete suffers a freak injury [Court Vision]
- Carlos Boozer throws the WORST pass in NBA history [The Basketball Jones]
- What was the biggest footnoted Championship in NBA history? Bill Simmons provides a shockingly insightful look. [Grantland]
- Drew Magary on five ice cream flavors that NEED to happen [Gawker]
- Yes, the Flyers are out of the playoffs, but that still doesn't make Ilya Bryzgalov's insane ramblings any less hilarious. [Puck Daddy]
- One ESPN's bullshit equivocation on why they don't cover hockey [Awful Announcing]
- Here's a link to a YouTube rabbit hole to get lost in for all you Game of Thrones fans out there [Flavorwire]
- Trolling, level Mike Leach [Deadspin]
- The cautionary tale of a pederast posing as an über-booster for Ohio State [Land Grant Holy Land]
- What country has the best taste in music? [UPROXX]
- A magnetic field, visualized [Imgur Gallery]
Junior Seau
- Ufford wrote a pretty compelling essay comparing the life and death of an athlete to that of a soldier. [SB Nation]
- Jon Bois writes about how an athlete's death is different [SB Nation]
- Seau had a heart as big as his hits, as referenced by the time he picked up the tab for a bar full of veterans [Deadspin]
- Dan Levy weighs in wondering if Seau's death will cajole people into finding the answers to their problems in life [Wide Left]
- Comparing Seau's death to the current NFL crop of players who go with little regard to the health of their brains like Peyton Hillis [The Classical]
- Seau is remembered as a funny, charismatic teammate [Shutdown Corner]
- Zerkle on how The Simpsons accidentally had a commentary on concussions and Seau less than a week after his passing [The Go Route]
